-Ngufor Peter
By
Francis Ekongang Nzante
In a message presented to the Prime Minister Chief, Doctor Joseph Dion Ngute during his recent three day visit to the North West Region, Peter Njontor Ngufor, Resource Person for the CPDM Party and Chief Executive Officer of Farmers House has stated that good faith and good will are needed on both sides of the coin for the PM's Peace Mission to yield fruits.
Referring
to the crisis presently wreaking havoc in the North West and South West Regions
of the country as an otherwise minor problem, he said the military option was a
wrong choice. “In my small understanding, this was more an issue of the Police
Force which has been trained to maintain law and order in the entire country.”
This
elite from the North West Region also seriously decried the tendency to equate
the Anglophone Crisis to the Terrorism seen during the War of independence from France in the
fifties and early sixties. The approach used in the crisis by the government has destroyed that necessary
confidence that a people should have for their government. Hear him:
“The Peace mission that is being undertaken...is quite difficult in the sense
that a lot of goodwill and good faith is needed on all sides especially on the
side of the Government that has realised its errors through which many lives
have been lost unnecessarily..”
The
elite further stated that the root cause of the problem was the lack of equity.
He explained that President Ahidjo chose to play games between Foncha and Muna and
unfortunately completely missed the point. Acknowledging the fact that Southern
Cameroons actually voted to join their brothers instead of joining Nigeria he
regretted that the two cultures were not judiciously exploited to achieve
outstanding development worthy of envy by other African countries.
Peter
Njontor Ngufor opined that President Paul Biya was single handedly chosen by Ahmadou
Ahidjo as Head of State in bad faith. He said he was chosen without adequate
preparation because he wanted him to fail as Head of State. “Paul Biya as an
intellectual should have seen this lapse and organised himself accordingly and
moved the unified Cameroon to sound development equitably”
He
said the immediate thing to be done was to declare a ceasefire to put a stop to
the hostilities presently rocking the country.
The declaration of the ceasefire he said, should be accompanied by “a
very big and sincere apology to the whole Nation.” Another immediate antidote
prescribed by this elite is the engagement of a meaningful and sincere dialogue
or discussions which should take into account the provisions of the 1961 Constitution
“which provided the framework for appointments and the sharing of the National
Cake.”
Cameroon
he said had failed to exist as a coherent nation because of its failure to develop
the various segments of its society. No one sector he said is perfect after 60
years of Reunification and Independence. “We have rather perfected negativity
shamefully.”
He
called on President Paul Biya to turn his back on arrogance and make an effort
to implement results of pains taking initiatives like the one the Prime
Minister was presently carrying out.
“The
so called war against our own people has turned out to be very dirty and has
exposed Cameroon as a nation to ridicule. I am very sorry to say this but since
your Excellency is on the field to gather honest opinions, hard facts must be
told.”
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